Black Widows Web Series Review: Terrible show that will test your patience till the end
Black Widows Web Series Review: 1 star
Just watched Black Widows Web Series on Sony LIV. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this web series.
Cast: Mona Singh, Shamita Shetty, Swastika Mukherjee, Sharad Kelkar, Parambrata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Amir Ali, Shruti Vyas, Faisal Malik and Nikhil Bhambhari
Director: Birsa Dasgupta
Release Date: 18th Dec 2020 (On Sony Zee5 Premium)
Duration: 12 Episodes/ 30 Minutes
Story: This Zee5 series is adapted from Finnish series Mustat Lesket. Veera (Mona Singh), Jayati (Swastika Mukherjee) and Kavita (Shamita Shetty) are so desperate to free themselves from their spouses that they even contemplate suicide. It’s the airhead Kavita who has the bright idea that the husbands need to die instead.
While Jayati’s husband Lalit (Mohan Kapur) is abusive and beats her up, torturing and harassing her, Kavita’s husband Neelesh (Vipul Roy) forces her to sleep with men he considers good for his business, like a probable investor or partner. Jatin (Sharad Kelkar) who is married to Veera, is mixed up in dubious activities and also threatens Veera to kill their daughter Siya rather than let her take her away.
They trick their spouses into joining them for a weekend outing. There’s a neat plan that’s laid out. The men will hit the waters in a speedboat, on which a time bomb has been planted. In no time, the bomb will go off and their husbands were killed. Now the idea is to pretend to be devastated widows till the cops close the case as one of accident and then move on to better lives.
Cops Pankaj (Parambrata Chattopadhyay) and Rinku (Shruti Vyas) get on to the case and during the course of their investigation find a timer belonging to the bomb. They are convinced now that the incident was more sinister than it appears to be. As if this wasn’t trouble enough, the three widows also have to deal with their individual demons too. Only two bodies are retrieved as Jatin was survived after the incident.
Among Jatin’s suspects is his partner Rameez (Shaheb Chattopadhyay), who is squeezing Veera for the bagful of money, and the pharma company owner Inaaya (Raima Sen), who will stop at nothing to market her dubious vaccine. To make matters worse, Jahann (Nikhil Bhambri), Jayati’s stepson also lands at her door, thanks to a will by his father that she has no clue about. Veera is dabbling in love with Eddie (Aamir Ali), the single father of Siya’s friend and playmate, a sensitive guy who is nice and fun to be with.
Have the women set into motion something that they won’t be able to stop? Will they finally find the peace and love that they had murdered for? You need to watch the show to find out.
Positives
1. Story
2. Back ground Music
3. Initial episodes
Negatives
1. Direction
2. Mediocre Acting
3. Length
4. Climax
5. Screenplay
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : Trailer of this web-series was good and something new and with such good star cast and big names planned to watch this on the release day.
Series start and finish with very fascinating note when Veera Mehrotra (Mona Singh) telling the audience that she is about to die soon. It then takes us back in time where the show’s lead couples are on a holiday. First and 2nd episode were good but after that your real patience will be tested. As a viewer I don’t know if you will be able to sit through the entire series, or would just jump to the last episode to know how the circus ends. Series end on cliffhanger but for the first time I am not waiting for it’s sequel as will not watch the 2nd season for sure.
Some of the twists in the story don’t create curiosity but leave you bugged as it lacks finesse at many places, which is required in a murder mystery. Too many loopholes in the screenplay, continuity, and over all execution. The actors of the web series also don’t impress, well, most of them I still don’t know why Shamita Shetty agreed to make a comeback on screen with such a frivolous role, whose writing is as confused as her character’s stance on her financial status.
In an attempt to make it twisty and engaging, the director made it draggy and aimless. Had she not introduced so many sub-plots, characters and stuck to a main track, and wrapped up the series in 8 sharp episodes, this review would have been way different. Overall one of the most boring series I have ever seen. My view on this web-series is SKIP IT.
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